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  A list of OpenBao policy decisions made by the community and Technical Steering Committee.
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# Policies

The following is a list of policies decided upon by the community and the
OpenBao Technical Steering Committee.

## Community decisions

 - [Deprecation Policy](/docs/policies/deprecation), for executing the
   deprecation and removal of a feature from the code base.
 - [Plugin Support Policy](/docs/policies/plugins), for deciding which
   plugins to keep within the OpenBao Core distribution and which to support
   as external plugins.
 - [Migration Path Policy](/docs/policies/migration), for compatibility
   guarantees between OpenBao and upstream.
 - [Support & Release EoL Policy](/docs/policies/support), to document release
   lifecycles and implied support policies.

## Community processes

 - [Release Checklist](/docs/policies/release), for creating a new release.
